The Cloud Native Computing Foundation Announces 30 New Members

PRAGUE – October 23, 2017 –Open Source Summit – T​he Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF), which sustains and integrates open source technologies like Kubernetes and Prometheus, today announced that 30 new members joined the Foundation.

“CNCF is thrilled to welcome our many new members from around the world in diverse industries, including financial leaders like Bloomberg and Morgan Stanley,” said Dan Kohn, Executive Director of the Cloud Native Computing Foundation. “CNCF has now crossed over the 100 member mark in less than two years since we started, including the six largest public cloud providers. As our membership base diversifies, the ecosystem benefits from broader input, contributions and financial support to fuel more rapid adoption of cloud native computing.”

About the newest Silver Members:

ACEDEMAND IT Serviceshas experience with software architecture and software development support to help with enterprise software projects.

Alauda, with its container-centric enterprise Platform-as-a-Service offerings, empowers professionals in software and IT with a razor focus on delivering cloud native capabilities and DevOps best practices to enterprise customers across industries.

Applatix provides products and services that help developers successfully run Kubernetes in development and production, including Argo – an open source container-native workflow engine for Kubernetes.

Aqua Security enables enterprises to secure their container-based applications from development to production, accelerating container adoption and bridging the gap between DevOps and IT security.

Buoyant builds open source service mesh infrastructure to help companies run their applications safely, securely and reliably.

Bloomberg is a global business and financial information powerhouse which uses innovative technology to deliver real-time data, news and analytics to influential decision makers across business, finance, government, policy and philanthropy.

InfoSiftr– a global authority in container images – provides Docker Authorized Training, integration and consulting services, with a team that includes a Docker core maintainer as well as other contributors who support the container runtime spec – runC and containerd – and Docker CE.

New H3C Technologies is a world-leading provider of New IT solutions, fully committed to the research & development, production, sales, consulting and services of New IT products and solutions.

Netsil provides observability and monitoring for cloud native applications – enabling real-time visibility into the health and performance of applications, without any code instrumentation.

Nirmata provides multi-cloud Kubernetes cluster management for enterprise IT, as well as simplified delivery, management and governance of cloud native applications for product development and operations teams.

OpenEBS is open source containerized storage natively integrated into Kubernetes that delivers per Pod or microservice storage policies such as cross cloud replication.

Platform9’s next-generation open cloud is built on a SaaS architecture that runs across any data-center or public cloud – making it easy for enterprises to deploy, manage and maintain hybrid clouds using industry standard cloud frameworks such as Kubernetes, OpenStack and Fission.

Qualcomm‘s technologies are revolutionizing industries, including automotive, computing, IoT, healthcare and data center, and are allowing millions of devices to connect with each other in ways never before imagined. Qualcomm Datacenter Technologies, Inc., a subsidiary of QUALCOMM Incorporated, introduced Qualcomm Centriq™, a new family of ARM-based processors, to address the needs of today’s datacenter.

RackN is using fast, simple and open automation to change the economics of the data center.

resin.io enables developers to remotely update and manage code running on fleets of Linux-based connected devices – bringing a modern software development workflow, including Docker, to the Internet of Things.

GitHub – the largest open source community in the world – enables developers to create and maintain influential technologies from more than 68 million repositories worldwide.

Kuelap is a cloud native platform for digital financial services based on the open source Apache Fineract framework and other open source standards – providing fast, low-cost mobile delivery of digital financial services to four billion people across the world who do not have access to financial services.

Reddit – dubbed “the front page of the Internet” – is the home of conversation online. With more than 330 million global users monthly, Reddit is home to the most open and authentic conversations online.

The New York Times Company is a global media organization known for excellence in its journalism, innovation in its print and digital storytelling, and its business model.

Zendesk is a cloud-based company that builds software for better customer relationships – empowering organizations to improve customer engagement and better understand their customers.

Bloomberg, Reddit, GitHub, Kuelap, The Wikimedia Foundation, Zendesk, Morgan Stanley and The New York Times join other end user companies including Box, Capital One, eBay, Goldman Sachs, NCSOFT, Ticketmaster, Twitter, Vevo and Zalando in CNCF’s End User Community. This group meets monthly and advises CNCF Governing Board and Technical Oversight Committee members on key challenges, emerging use cases and areas of opportunity and new growth for cloud native technologies. This month, Sam Lambert, Senior Director of Infrastructure Engineering at GitHub, was elected by the End User Community to the Technical Operating Committee (TOC) – joining other TOC members and representing CNCF’s growing community of end users.

Cloud native computing uses an open source software stack to deploy applications as microservices, packaging each part into its own container, and dynamically orchestrating those containers to optimize resource utilization. The Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) hosts critical components of those software stacks including Kubernetes, Fluentd, linkerd, Prometheus, OpenTracing, gRPC, CoreDNS, containerd, rkt, CNI, Envoy and Jaeger. CNCF serves as the neutral home for collaboration and brings together the industry’s top developers, end users and vendors – including the six largest public cloud providers and many of the leading private cloud companies. CNCF is part of The Linux Foundation, a nonprofit organization. For more information about CNCF, please visit: https://cncf.io/.